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Israel Houghton (pronounced, hoh’-tin) (born May 19, 1971) is an American Christian music artist, worship leader and singer-songwriter. He is known for his cross-cultural style of Christian music that fuses elements from gospel, jazz, rock and reggae. Houghton is usually credited as Israel & New Breed. Houghton is a worship leader at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. "All Around" is on the Digital Praise PC game Guitar Praise.
Houghton produced an album by Michael Gungor called "Bigger Than My Imagination". This album was described as "one of the year's best worship albums" in a 2003 Christianity Today review.
Houghton has served as worship leader for the Promise Keepers and Champions for Christ events, as well as the Hillsong Conference 2006–10, and Hillsong Conference Europe 2008–10. Israel currently serves as a worship leader (alongside Cindy Cruse-Ratcliff, Steve Crawford and Da'dra Crawford-Greathouse) at Lakewood Church in Houston, pastored by Joel Osteen.
Turning
Get the pain deserved
Blinding
Always lurking to be seen
Cheap joint is only fun
Never the kind,
Never the polite way
Turning
Blinding
The joint gives all the fun
Enjoying to be disliked
Is there another level
To be thrown off?
Another shit to dive in
Another pleasant dive in
A deeper pit
Another level
To be thrown off...
Rising to the madness
Life told to be fine
I'm hiding my real pleasure